Pleasure Quotes · Page 119

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

— Joyce Brothers

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

— Jean de La Fontaine

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits…

— Maria Edgeworth

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

— Douglas Hurd

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

— Lord Byron

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

— Roger Federer

“Don’t beg for treasure; create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions; build one for yourself.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's…

— Saul Perlmutter

A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It…

— David Hilbert

Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to…

— Ali Sina

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed…

— Charlotte Mason

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent…

— William Wordsworth

Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment…

— Guy Laliberte

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know…

— Elmore Leonard

'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to…

— William Faulkner

The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per…

— Stephen Covey

With all of the visual distraction constantly inundating us in the form of our devices and screens, I really derive a great…

— Nick Offerman

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…

— Matt Taibbi

There was a time when formal clothes were one of life's great pleasures, as well as a way of describing instantly a…

— Peter York

What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living…

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

— Sigmund Freud

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to…

— Anonymous

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of…

— Julie Andrews

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

— Julie Newmar

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

— Aldous Huxley

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

— Celeste Holm

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

— Seth

I had the pleasure of learning how to wrestle long matches and use psychology.

— Mark Henry

By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

— William Stanley Jevons

You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

— Woody Allen

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

— Alexander Pope

The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

— William Godwin

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

— Julius Caesar

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to…

— William J. H. Boetcker

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

— Margaret Drabble